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Ulysses' Mission Extended
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 19, 2007ESA's Science Programme Committee has unanimously approved to continue the operations of the highly successful Ulysses spacecraft until March 2009. This latest extension, for a period of 12 months, is the fourth in the history of the joint NASA/ESA mission. In addition to pursuing its long-term goal of exploring the heliosphere in four dimensions - 3 spatial dimensions and time - Ulysses is a ke ... more Life on Mars - Viking Revisited 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Mars is often suggested as a good location to search for alien life. Despite many missions to the red planet, it's still a mystery whether life existed there in the distant past or if it is thriving there today. Attempting to answer this question was an aim of the Viking missions of 1976, but the results of those experiments were frustratingly ambiguous. At a recent science conference, Joo ... more Announcement Of Opportunity For Sounding Rocket And Balloon Flights 
Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Nov 27, 2007The ESA Education Office has today issued an announcement of opportunity for student experiments to be flown on two sounding rockets and one stratospheric balloon, to be launched from Kiruna in Northern Sweden. Selected student teams will have the chance to design and build an experiment suitable for flight on the BEXUS 7 balloon that will be launched in September 2008, or the REXUS 5 and 6 soun ... more SingTel And ProtoStar Announce Joint 
Singapore (SPX) Nov 27, 2007ProtoStar and Singapore Telecommunications announced a two-pronged agreement today for SingTel to provide ProtoStar with satellite control services and at the same time lease C-band capacity on ProtoStar's first satellite. In making the joint announcement in Singapore, Philip Father, President and CEO of ProtoStar Ltd., and Titus Yong, SingTel's Vice President for Satellite, emphasized the growi ... more Spain accuses Germany and Italy of blocking Galileo role : press 
Madrid (AFP) Nov 26, 2007Spain has accused Germany and Italy of seeking to prevent Madrid from playing a leading role in the Galileo satellite-navigation project, a Spanish newspaper said Monday. "There is political obstruction by Germany and Italy to Spain playing a prominent role" in Galileo, according to a document by the ministry of public works seen by the El Mundo newspaper. "This political obstruction is ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Nov 27, 2007The research capacity of the International Space Station is set to double during a December NASA mission that is a milestone for European spaceflight. The European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory packed inside space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay is the culmination of years of design and engineering work aimed at creating Europe's primary component for the space station. At 23 feet long ... more Second Belarusian Satellite To Blast Off Late 2009 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 27, 2007Belarus's second satellite will be launched from Russia's Plesetsk space center in late 2009, the head of Belarusian company Geoinformational Systems said on Thursday. Belarus launched its first satellite, Belka, in July 2006. However, a Dnepr rocket carrying the Belarusian satellite, along with several international satellites, crashed shortly after lift off from the Baikonur space center in Ka ... more Satellite Shows Regional Variation In Warming From Sun During Solar Cycle 
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 18, 2007A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project. Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said ... more Shock At Decision To Pull UK Out Of Gemini Observatory 
London, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2007The Council of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the UK's society for professional astronomers and geophysicists, have expressed their shock at the sudden decision of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to withdraw the UK from the Gemini Observatory. Gemini consists of two 8-m optical telescopes, one in Hawaii (Gemini North) and one in Chile (Gemini South), which toget ... more China Completes Enclosure Of Land For Fourth Satellite Launch Center 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2007China has finished enclosing land for its fourth satellite launch centre near Wenchang City on the southern Chinese island of Hainan. The Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre covers an area of 20 square kilometres, it will include a command centre, in addition to a rocket-launching site, rocket assembly plant, and a space-science theme park. The most important part, the rocket-launching site, ... more |
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Reston VA (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $160 million U.S. Air Force contract for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) System design and risk reduction. The OCX modernization effort will provide mission enterprise control support for the nation's existing GPS Block II and future Block III satellites. The GPS ground control segment includes satellite command and co ... more Raytheon Selected to Design The Next GPS Control Segment For Precision Navigation And Timing 
Aurora CO (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Raytheon has been awarded a $160 million, 18-month contract to develop a new system design for the next-generation Global Positioning System Control Segment. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The new control segment will revolutionize GPS command, control and mission capabilities and refocus operations for the current GPS Block II and all future GPS ... more Ex-Czech PM calls US anti-missile plan 'provocation': report 
Prague (AFP) Nov 26, 2007A former Czech prime minister condemned on Monday the United States' plans to place anti-missile radars in the Czech Republic as a "useless provocation" of Russia, according to media reports. "The true objective of this radar base is to aim at Russia" and notably to monitor their ballistic missile tests, Milos Zeman said, cited by CTK agency. Russia has vehemently opposed the whole idea, ... more 2002 Alaskan Quake Left 7 Areas Of California Stirred But Not Shaken 
Tacoma WA (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Earth tremors not linked to volcanic activity first turned up in seismic observations several years ago, but those tremors were almost exclusively in subduction zones such as the Cascadia region off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. New research has found evidence of tremors along non-subduction zone faults in seven California locations. The tremors immediately followed the magnitude 7.8 Denal ... more Typhoon Mitag slams into Philippines: officials 
Manila (AFP) Nov 26, 2007Rescuers went on full alert Monday after Typhoon Mitag slammed into the Philippines, killing at least eight people and forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes in one of the country's largest evacuation operations in recent history. Mitag hit the northern province of Isabela on the main island of Luzon late Sunday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, knocking out power lines and caus ... more
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